Secretariat: The Movie, Whoa!

[johnny pinwheel]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I am not very excited about it because I thought the preview for it looked pretty horrible. I enjoyed Seabiscuit, but this movie looks very Disney-fied and horrendous from what I've seen.

I hope I'm wrong and Scav is right.

no, you were right. it was not that good. seabiscuit was way better and more accurate. they spend half the movie fighting over selling the horse...after he wins horse of the year as a two year old. they do point out how he won 7 races in about 9 weeks. he won 8 as a two year old ....3 at the saratoga meet...ran in 9. won the sanford ten days later ...won the hopeful. i laugh when they talk about giving two year olds HOY today they run about 4 times. his first jockey paul feliciano (5 pound bug) was not fired after the first race....he rode secretariat to his first win, second time out. sham never won the wood...angle light did. they needed a "bad guy" . frank martin was elected .......like he did not know secretariat was good after his first season and sham was never really close to as good. the tracks they run at ...saratoga did not even look like saratoga and for the belmont they should of shown the real footage. i know its disney and they need a story but half the movie is spent in family bickering over possibly the best race horse ever. it was actually kind of a dumb movie other than secretariat being the subject in it.